This animation was the first introduction to pupit pins in after affects. Before this we learnt how to use posistion, opacity, scale and rotation. Using all the knowledge we had taken in earlier we created this quick but quite respectable animation. First we created are little green monster in photoshop and imported it with an urban backgroung into after affects. Secondly we made the urban background move slowly to the right whilst making the monster move to the left. Then using pupit pins we placed them in each circle and moved the up and down to give the illution of a crawling monster.
This is a very basic sample of typeography. It is very hard and complex to do and is a technique tht can take a while to perfect. The reason being that you have to sync the word with the sound. It is much easier if you plan the final outcome before you do it. First of all you have choose a few words of a full sentences and then open illustator and work backwards. By this you can the start the finished picture before you can open after effects and start using the posistion tool. when you have desighned the end product you can open it in after effects and pull the words out with the position tool to the sound of the music.
Journey throught pictures
This is a really easy animation to do and all it takes is a good camera and a tiny bit of editing after. All i did to create this illution is set the camera to auto-focus and walk along and every 2/3 second take a snap shot, when you have the pictures and you have placed them on the computer you can take them into iphoto and from there i dragged them into imovie. The first thing i did was change all the clip seconds to 0.2 of a second the changed all into black and white by taking all the saturation away. Next clicked on crop and fit the picture to frame and exported movie.
Walking man
This animation was the first introduction to key frames in directorX. I had to put alot of effort into this animation because i did not fully understand how it worked. First i had to find a background that i could walk on or just have as a background, then i had to take a series of photos and then take them into photoshop and edit them so it was just me. When i had imported them into seperate keyframe's, then create a loop of the picture and then positioned them acroos.
UFO Animation
This animation was the first real challange we had in after effects. We had just had a tutorial on how to use after effects and had to product a basic animation. For this animation we used most of the transition tools and was experimenting with them. To make the UFO fly in and look asif it was moving we used the postion tool and moved the background to the right to give the illution that it was moving, we used the opacity next to make the missile appeare and then use the position to make it move. as the missile hit the UFO we then dropped the oppacity of the UFO to 0% and gave the explosion 100% opacticy whilst scaling it up.
Dancing can
This is a technique in after effects that is a quick and fun way to create a good animation. all it requires is Pupit pins in the top middle and bottom of the can then choose a sound track to sync it with. To sync it and make it move in time you have to hold CMD on the mac and move the pupit pin around. This dancing can it not entirley in Sync becasue when uploading to youtube it took away the timing.